A Broken Hand?

Remember...
A dream is woven from thin air and nothing…
Embroidered with wishes and everything...
Then filled with the padding of hope and delight.
James W. King

It's been a long week and I'm grateful it's Friday and there's no football tomorrow. (The boys have a bye). I think I have a broken hand, or finger. Last Friday morning I woke up with a very swollen left hand, and my knuckles so swollen that I had a terrible time taking off my rings. I tripped on the fan in my bedroom on Thursday night, and put my hand out to stop myself from falling, and although I didn't think I'd hurt it, it's still swollen and sore after a week. And no, I haven't been to a doctor.

I can type so I can work, and I imagine in time it will go back to normal. (I hope!) I've discovered that you can't take things for granted, and you need two good hands to do many things. Simple things like unbuttoning your jeans to go to the loo, picking up the coffee jar with your left hand, and scrubbing white socks. But life goes on...

I moved into the new office at work on Monday, and today I feel a little more settled. Drawers need going through, a few things tossed out, but that will have to wait for a rainy day when there's little else to do. I've inherited the main email address at work, and now get 50 times the amount of email I've been used to, which I have to forward on or delete. The mail is another thing, it needs to get registered, allocated a file number, and delivered to the right person. That's the hard part: who gets what. The extra work load doesn't seem so bad, I'm not snowed under or anything, but being in an office on my own is new and I miss the jokes and fun we had in my old office. I'll get used to it though, and will probably get more work done as a result.

We got some rain today and the temperatures plummeted. Now it really feels like winter is on the way. Give me sun and heat any time, I'm no snow bunny. Of course, we desperately need the rain. The rivers are so low that I heard on the news that if we don't get some serious rain soon, the price of vegetables will skyrocket with a 500% increase. I think the shops must have watched the same news story, because they've already gone up. A shame, because quite often they don't come back down again. There could be hard times ahead.